12-letter words containing s, o, f, t, l, e
- foresightful — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
- forest floor — the above- ground layer of a forest made up of tree roots, soil and decaying matter
- forestalling — Present participle of forestall.
- forestaysail — a triangular sail set on a forestay; the innermost headsail of a vessel.
- foretopsails — Plural form of foretopsail.
- fortresslike — Resembling a fortress in shape or impregnability.
- foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
- frictionless — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.
- fulton sheen — Fulton (John) 1895–1979, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman, writer, and teacher.
- functionless — Lacking a function.
- half section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- half-section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- hostile fire — an unintentional fire, from which any resulting loss can be claimed as an insurance liability (opposed to friendly fire).
- hydrosulfate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- infectiously — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
- infelicitous — inapt, inappropriate, or awkward; malapropos: an infelicitous remark.
- inflorescent — Of, pertaining to or causing inflorescence.
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- least of all — You can use least of all after a negative statement to emphasize that it applies especially to the person or thing mentioned.
- life history — the series of living phenomena exhibited by an organism in the course of its development from inception to death.
- life support — equipment to sustain a patient's life
- life-support — of or relating to equipment or measures that sustain or artificially substitute for essential body functions, as breathing or disposal of body wastes: Without life-support equipment, the patient might die.
- line of site — a straight line from the muzzle of an artillery gun to its target.
- little foxes — a play (1939) by Lillian Hellman.
- loathfulness — (rare) The condition of being loathful; reluctance.
- loose-footed — (of a fore-and-aft sail) not having the foot bent to a boom.
- loosefitting — fitting loosely
- loosestrifes — Plural form of loosestrife.
- malefactions — Plural form of malefaction.
- myofilaments — Plural form of myofilament.
- olefiant gas — ethylene (def 2).
- on the shelf — a thin slab of wood, metal, etc., fixed horizontally to a wall or in a frame, for supporting objects.
- out of scale — If something is out of scale with the things near it, it is too big or too small in relation to them.
- out of style — no longer fashionable
- outside-left — a footballer who plays on the outside left wing of the field
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
- profitlessly — in such a way as to not yield profit, as in financial gains or general benefits or advantages
- protest flag — a flag hoisted by a racing yacht to advise the judges of a violation of the rules by another yacht.
- put flesh on — If you put flesh on something, you add details and more information to it.
- salutiferous — salutary.
- sand-floated — noting an exterior wall finish composed of mortar rubbed with sand and floated when it has partly set.
- satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- self-conceit — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
- self-concept — the idea or mental image one has of oneself and one's strengths, weaknesses, status, etc.; self-image.
- self-content — satisfaction with oneself; self-complacency.
- self-control — control or restraint of oneself or one's actions, feelings, etc.
- self-devoted — intense devotion of oneself to an activity or to a field or profession, as art or science.
- self-storage — noting or pertaining to a warehouse or other facility that rents units to people for storing personal possessions.